Considering the Nevada Wolf Pack entered the season with an all-freshman front court after and very few upperclassmen playing key roles on the team, it seems preseason coaches and media polls predicting the team would win the Western Athletic Conference were inexplicably high.

Trying to "ketchup" with consumer demand for healthier foods, H.J. Heinz dropped the gherkin pickle from the condiment's more-than-a-century-old label logo and spruced it up with a tomato on the vine with the slogan "Grown not made."

Carl Peterson, whose Kansas City Chiefs contended for much of his tenure but never made the Super Bowl, is out after nearly 20 years as president, CEO and general manager.Clark Hunt, announcing his first major decision since he became chairman of the board upon the death two years ago of his father, Lamar, said the future of coach Herm Edwards would be decided later.

Saying he was "kind of disgusted with myself," a nervous-looking Larry Johnson apologized Wednesday for behavior that's led to an NFL investigation and to his benching for a second straight week. "I want to start off saying I apologize to the Hunt family, my family, first and foremost, the fans, teammates, coaches and players," said Kansas City's two-time Pro Bowl running back.

They lacked the manipulative intent of the Hunt brothers, who famously cornered the silver market in the 1970s. Still, big investors speculating on oil are largely to blame for the record energy prices that squeezed millions of Americans this year, according to an independent report out Wednesday.